Month: February 2012
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Howard Stringer + more news
Howard Stringer Sony confirms Kazuo Hirai as new President and CEO, replacing Howard Stringer — Engadget – this is huge, the pivot back from entertainment to engineering and technology is happening at Sony. Howard Stringer worked for three decades at CBS, which Sony bought during the go-go years of the 1980s. He started as junior…
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Sony Trinitron
It is hard for anyone who can’t remember back to the original PlayStation, but back in the 1980s and the 1990s Sony was a technology company that held the kind of stature that Apple currently holds in consumer minds. Trinitron had the kind of gravitas that Apple’s iPhone or Samsung’s Galaxy have now. In fact,…
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Tape pack
Back in the day many computer games, audio books and language course used to come in a book sized moulded plastic sleeve lined with four or six cassette tapes called a tape pack. There would be a sleeve that would take a cover on the outside like a DVD film case (or a VHS film…